Alex Williams

Alexander Williams is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Yale and a J.D. student at Yale Law School. His research focuses on the history of the legal profession in postcolonial South Asia. He seeks to understand how lawyers function as powerful economic and social actors within the history of global capitalism. He is also interested in the history of the legal profession more broadly, both within and outside the common law world.

Before graduate school, he received a B.A. in History and South Asian Studies from Yale College, where he wrote a thesis on post-WWII trials for collaboration and treason in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. In 2019-20 he was a Fox International Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University.